GRRRRRRRR I don't WANT to confirm my email address! I HATE confirming my email address! *rips the door off my fridge*
I discovered something in Animal Crossing that has unnerved me slightly.
So in a couple instances, regular animals are seen in the game, even though their villager-counterparts have sapient-level intelligence. Popular examples include octopi, which are villagers even though you used to be able to catch them while fishing, or this caged hamster.
Other items in the game such as these playground toys imply the existance of other non-person animals in this world as well.
Now I posit that this implies a Goofy/Pluto law in the AC universe, meaning that some animals are people and some are just animals. All characters in your village are simply the "people species". Completely reasonable.
Heres what I hate though- the human player is obviously a person-species, but you can get an anatomically correct human skeleton in the game:
Which implies that there is not only a more anatomically correct human species in the AC-Universe, but one that is entirely feral.
its because schools are so caught up in violating students every rights to privacy that they are blatently disregarding thoes same kids safety.
zoom allowes you to track eye movements. mousepad/mouse movemenst. the browser activitiy of the user. its horrifying and dare i fucking say litteral motherfucking spyware. its not a app its a fucking virus.
its so horrifically easy to guess every facet of zoom that im guessing that schools just looked at the violation features and took them in without a second throught or trial. they disregard better functioning programs like discord because they are horrified that thoes programs would give students a sliver of privacy
their instistance on using zoom is a very clear direct cause of schools horrific obsession with micromanageing every single facet of a students life.
report the fucking app.
get it taken down
If you have to use Zoom, your best bet is to run it from the browser. The Zoom website will try to get you to use the app, but if you keep declining that, it will use its browser-based interface. Since browsers have much better security, they’re unable to do any kind of persistent monitoring and have almost no access to system activities. When you close the tab, you can be assured that it isn’t running.
so for the past month or so at gamestop we’ve been getting prank calls from kids asking if we have big chungus. usually i play along and tell them it’s not out yet but you can preorder it for a thousand dollars or whatever because it makes them happy
anyway yesterday i walk into the back room at the beginning of my shift and see an empty game box with the big chungus box art inserted. like straight up just this exact image
except it was for the 360, not the ps4. inside was a copy of kinect adventures which i don’t think gamestop even sells anymore. i thought it was really funny and i asked my boss why he brought it in but he informed me that it had been there when he opened and had no idea where it came from (we still don’t know)
a couple hours later i had two kids come into the store and ask for big chungus in person. this was a first - previously i’d only received big chungus questions over the phone. it was a fucking miracle that this was happening on the same day a copy of big chungus had inexplicably materialized in the store. so i said “yes actually, one second” and stepped into the back, i could hear the kids gasping with disbelief behind me. i brought out big chungus and they absolutely lost their shit. one of them took a snap of it and was like “YO I’M AT GAMESTOP AND THEY ACTUALLY HAVE BIG CHUNGUS” while the other frantically texted all his friends. it was great, best thing that’s happened at work in weeks. moral of the story is if you work at gamestop, print out a big chungus cover and keep it in the back, you may end up making some kid’s day
Before COVID shut the library down, I was helping a little boy and his mom find books.
“What do you like to read about?” I asked.
“Dinosaurs!”
This is common request, but can mean different things, “Okay. Do you want a story about dinosaurs, or facts about dinosaurs?”
“Facts.”
I took him to the dinosaur section (567.9) of the juvenile nonfiction. He picked out a couple books, and I asked him if there was anything else he was looking for.
“Do you have anything on DNA?”
I had to think about that for a second. “I think so…but I’ll have to look it up.”
The boy beamed, “I want to find out how DNA works, so I can bring them back!”
“We just saw Jurassic Park,” his mom explained with a smile that did not waver when she added, “We didn’t learn anything.”
